Bonnie Kagan
115 East 92nd Street, New York, NY 10128
212 518-8690
kaganfineart@gmail.com
FINE ART APPRAISER & CONSULTANT
PROFILE
Bonnie Kagan offers clients over twenty years of experience as an art professional, gallery owner and director, consultant for collection building as well as art advisor and appraiser.
Presently Ms. Kagan is specializing in appraising art from estates and preparing the art to be sold into the secondary market. This preparation includes appraising, condition reports, provenance and authentication research, and restoration if necessary, as well as advising on selling into the best market, or brokering a sale. Note: the appraiser cannot be the one to broker the sale.
Written appraisal reports are done for insurance scheduling, charitable donations for tax credits, estate settlements, divorce and equitable distribution, damage and loss in insurance claims, and dispute settlements. All appraisals are prepared with the highest and most up to date standards according to the "Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice" (USPAP).
Areas of special knowledge and experience include: American 19th and 20th Century, which includes Post War and Contemporary American, European 19th century, French and American Impressionism, Modernism and Abstract Expressionism styles for paintings drawings, sculpture original prints and photographs.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 Hubert Gallery, 1046 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10075
Director
2008 Art Advisor to the New York Jets
1984 to 1992 Bonnie Kagan Gallery, Inc., Toronto, Canada
1992 to 2009 Kagan Fine Art: Art Consultant, Advisor and Appraiser
2001 to 2009: Kagan Fine Art Appraisals.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES:
Lawyers Weekly 2004: Wills Trust and Estates, "Art in Estates"
Lawyers Weekly 2001: Donating Art to Charities
Lawyers Weekly 2001: Family Law: Insurance issues for art collectors
EDUCATION:
2006 Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP)
American Society of Appraisers
2002 George Washington University, Washington, DC
History of Photography
2001 George Washington University, Washington, DC
Appraisal Studies Certificate Program:
Personal Property/Fine Art, Courses, 201, 202, 203, 204
York University, Toronto Canada: Fine Art
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
2009 Estates & Equitable Distribution, Appraisers Association of America
2009 The Art of Jewelry Appraising, New York University
Appraisal Studies if Fine & Decorative Arts
2007 A day with the IRS: Tax Policy and Legal Changes, Washington, DC
2007 Advanced Report Writing: American Society of Appraisers, Washington,
DC
2007 Advanced Issues: Original Prints, Appraisers Association of America,
New York
2006 Fundraising for the Arts, New York University
2004 Advanced Report Writing, Course ALL215, American Society of
Appraisers
MEMBERSHIPS
Appraisers Association of America, New York, NY
American Society of Appraisers (Candidate), New York Chapter
NYART (New York Archivist Round Table)
Exams:
2002 Ethics Exam, American Society of Appraisers